Sports Watch: Crosman LEC rookie of the week

DOVER — Samantha Crosman of South Berwick, Maine, a freshman on the University of Southern Maine softball team, was named Little East Conference rookie of the week.

The starting centerfielder collected at least one hit in each game of a 2-3 week. She hit .471 (8 for 17) with four RBIs and three runs scored.

Crosman went 3 for 6 in a doubleheader sweep of Bates with one run and one RBI and 4 for 7 in a pair of games against Plymouth State with two runs batted in.

She also had a hit and an RBI in a loss to Keene State.

Crosman has hit safely in 19 of her last 20 games, including the last five in a row. She’s hitting a team-high .381 (37 for 97) with a team-best 12 doubles, and ranks second on the club in RBIs and runs scored.

Crosman is batting .424 in LEC games with nine runs and six RBIs.

Crosman also had two hits including an RBI single as the Southern Maine softball team dropped both ends of a doubleheader against UMass Boston.

Dover’s Aaron Denis, a freshman on the Wentworth Institute of Technology baseball team, was named pitcher of the week in the Commonwealth Coast Conference.

Working 5.1 innings in the Leopards’ 2-1 win over Endicott, Denis held the league’s top-hitting and top-scoring offense to just one run while scattering eight hits and striking out two to pick up his team-high fifth victory of the season.

In seven appearances with six starts, he has a 5-2 record with a 2.45 earned-run average and four complete games.

Denis has fanned 21 batters in 44 innings.

Denis gave up two runs and three hits in four innings with seven strikeouts to help the Wentworth Institute of Technology baseball team defeat Rivier, 13-7.

Rochester’s Nick Adjutant shot a 5-over-par 76 to tie for second place and lead the Franklin Pierce University golf team to victory at last Monday’s Joe Plante Invitational at the Heritage Country Club in Charlton, Mass.

The Ravens were first out of eight teams.

Adjutant finished second in a tournament for the second time this spring. The other was at the Bentley Cap Cod Classic on April 5.

Rochester’s Paige Cormier pitched a complete game shutout for the Saint Anselm College softball team in a 7-0 win over Southern New Hampshire.

She allowed three hits with one strikeout and one walk.

Cormier also pitched a four-hitter in a 4-1 victory against Saint Michael’s, fanning five and walking two.

She pitched another complete game in a 4-1 win over Stonehill, allowing one unearned run on seven hits with four strikeouts and one walk.

She was recently named to the Northeast-10 Conference weekly honor roll.

She posted a 3-0 record for the week with an earned-run average of 1.00.

Cormier gave up three earned runs on eight hits with three strikeouts and no walks in a 6-5 win over Bentley that raised her record to 8-7.

Max McCoomb of South Berwick, Maine, went 2 for 4 with two runs scored and an RBI for the Saint Joseph’s College baseball team in a 9-2 win over Lasell in the quarterfinals of the GNAC tournament.

The former Marshwood High School standout also went 2 for 5 with two RBIs, a run and a double as the second-seeded Monks knocked off top-seed Suffolk, 9-2, in the semifinals.

Dover’s Cassidy Ruocco, a member on the University of New England women’s lacrosse team, was named senior scholar-athlete of the year by the Commonwealth Coast Conference.

The medical biology major has been a Dean’s List student every semester at UNE. Ruocco was also named to the CCC all-academic team in 2012 and 2013.

A four-year player for the Nor’easters, she has started every game this year as a defender, ranking second on the team in ground balls with 26 and third in caused turnovers with 16.

Rochester’s Andrew Sullivan had three goals and an assist for the Saint Joseph’s College men’s lacrosse team in a 9-5 loss to Becker in the quarterfinals of the GNC tournament.

New Castle’s Cielle Collins tripled for the Bowdoin College softball team in a 6-0 victory over the University of New England in the first game of a doubleheader.

Dover’s Madison Sullivan had five hits and two runs scored as the Brandeis University softball team swept a doubleheader from Worcester State by scores of 12-7 and 5-4.

Greenland’s Mariah Crisp struck out 14 to lead the Keene State College softball team to a 2-0 victory over Southern Maine.

The sophomore allowed just one hit – an infield single – and did not walk a batter. Only one ball left the infield as Crisp improved her record to 8-8 and halted the Owls’ four-game losing streak.

Barrington’s Lindsay Moore had two hits for the top-seeded Saint Joseph’s College softball team in a 10-4 victory against Suffolk in the GNAC playoffs.

Meghan Lewis of South Berwick, Maine, made 21 saves for the Wheelock College women’s lacrosse team in a 22-14 win over Elms.

In doing so, she became the only goalie in Division III to record a 50 percent or better save percentage in every game this season.

Dover’s Allyson Redden, a freshman attack on the Colby-Sawyer women’s lacrosse team, had five goals, two assists, six draw controls, four caused turnovers and three ground balls during a recent four-game stretch.

Rye’s Abaigeal Merrigan scored two goals as the Emmanuel College women’s lacrosse team captured its first GNAC title with a 17-7 win over Saint Joseph’s College.

Greenland’s Meghan Williams scored a goal for the Saint Joseph’s College women’s lacrosse team in a 17-7 loss to Emmanuel in the championship game of the GNAC tournament.

To submit information about a local athlete playing in college email Al Pike at apike@fosters.com.